A chance for the U.S. to nudge China and Russia toward a deal on nuclear weapons.

Will the continuing war in Ukraine and resulting toxic relations between Russia and NATO push nuclear arms control into the dustbin of history? Hopefully, the war in Ukraine will soon end in a ...

Arms control is much unloved at both ends of the political spectrum. Those ideologically opposed to arms control on the right believe it to be a snare and a delusion. In this view, arms control ...

In 2023, Moscow suspended the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), withdrew from the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE), de-ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ...

This piece is part of the CSIS International Security Program’s Transition46 series on Defense360. The last remaining bilateral arms control treaty between the United States and Russia—the New ...

While the U.S.-Russian relationship continues to be a useful model for thinking about the future, looking at a broader range of experiences shows that arms control is possible both when geopolitics ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, left, and U.S. President Ronald Reagan sign on Dec. 8, 1987, a treaty eliminating U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range and shorter-range nuclear missiles. (AFP/Getty ...

There’s always the potential for unintended consequences with arm sales, however justified they are. A basic problem for countries that sell weapons is that once you sell them you’ve given up ...

So declared former CIA Director Michael Hayden on hearing the news last week that President Donald Trump was considering pulling out of the Open Skies Treaty. In place since 1992, the treaty permits ...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made the announcement Friday. The U.S. is withdrawing from a historic Cold War-era nuclear arms control treaty because of ongoing violations, Secretary of State Mike ...

China's DF-41 nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles are seen during a military parade on Oct. 1, 2019. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images) MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. — With a major arms ...